Safety-pin.



110.757,70@ PATENTBD APR.19,1904.

RWBSTPPAL.

SAFETY PIN. APPLIGATION FILED Dnc. 21, 190s.

N0 MODEL.

Frederic/ ween/"al y y framers Patented April 19, 1904.

UNITED l STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK WESTPFAL, OF NEWr YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,700, dated April 19,1904.

Application filed December 2l, 19GB. Serial No. 185,930. (No model.)

The obj ect of this invention is to provide an improved fastening device of the class known as safety-pins, a further object being to provide a device of this class which is simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive and which will securely hold and cannot` be accidentallyT detached when in use; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my invention are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and inwhichl Figure lis a side view of my improved safetypin; Fig. 2, a similar view, partly in section; and Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the parts in a different position. l

In the practice of my invention I providea safety-pin comprising two side members t and b, connected at one end by a spring-ring c, said parts being preferably composed of spring-wire in the usual manner. The side member a is pointed at one end in the manner of an ordinary pin, as shown at a2, and the side member Z1, which constitutes the back of the device and a handle therefor, is provided at its end with a transverse hook member b2, having an oppositely-directed loop b3, and said back member is also provided adjacent to the end with a loop 64, which projects opposite to the loop 53, and mounted on the end portion of the part between the hook member 62 and the loop t* is a fiat link or band cl, open at both ends and provided at its inner end with a transverse member 55.

rIhe linkor band CZ may be turned on the end portion of the part 5 into the position shown in Fig. 3; but said link or band cannot be disconnected from the part Z7 on account of the article in the usual manner and pressed down into theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the link or band 0l is then turned back into the position in said last-named figures, in which position the pin member a passes thereinto and is securely held thereby.

In order to move the link or band Z into the position shown in Fig. 3. the main part of the device is held in one hand, and the said link or band is swung down into said position by grasping the same between the thumb and fingers and applying a slight pressure thereto, the loop b3 forming a slight obstruction to this operation, and when the pin member 'a has been bent down into the position shown in Fig. 2 the link or band d may be turned back into the position also shown in said gure and will securely remain in this position until-the above-described operation is repeated. This device is simple in construction and operation and is comparatively inexpensive and is also perfectly adapted to accom piish the results for which it is intended. Y Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj A safety-pin composed of two side parts having a spring connection at one end, one of said parts being.- pointed at the other end, and 4the other part being formed into an outwardly-directed hook and having loops projecting in opposite directions and in the same plane with the separate side parts, and a link -shaped band mounted on the last-named part and provided at its inner end with a transverse member, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses. this 19th day of December, 1903.

FREDERICK WES'TPFAL.

Witnesses: p

F. A. STEWART, C. E. MULREANY. 

